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This launch has been a long time coming. AMD took the wraps off its Kaveri APU today, officially putting the chip on pre-order — for delivery in the next few weeks — and launching a few benchmark results to demonstrate its performance. We’ve written a great deal about Kaveri in the past, so I’ll mostly recap today. This is AMD’s ...

At long last, it appears that highly accurate eye tracking and gaze-based control are finally coming to the world of PC gaming in the form of a SteelSeries peripheral. Sniping a terrorist in Counter-Strike might soon be as simple as glancing at him, rather than trying to quickly and accurately move the mouse. The product doesn’t yet have a name, ...

NC1/LNG/WENN Beyoncé’s album is a stealth smash, but get ready now for heavy publicity backing the new songs and videos, like the one above. Queen Bey has pulled off the biggest music heist in history – debuting her “secret,” self-titled album at No. 1 with 617,000 copies sold in just a few days, according to Nielsen SoundScan. But even though ...

Move over, graphene and carbyne — stanene, with 100% electrical efficiency at temperatures up to 100 degrees Celsius (212F), is here, and it wants to replace the crummy, high-resistance copper wires that are a big limiting factor in current computer chips. Where graphene is a single-atom-thick layer of carbon, stanene is a single-atom-thick layer of tin. Modern computer chips, such ...